Williams is spilling his gut, or had spilled his gut to Goodell, I am sure he typed 49,985 of those pages of evidence on a laptop in Goodells office..... In TRADE.

The set up: Goodell uses NFL.com to periodically make statements about how GW is reforming him self.

The delivery: Next season GW will be reinstated by Goodell, with the justification that GW is a reformed man.

Interesting he is going to attend a military bootcamp, after he spends missionary time with tribes in the opium triangle of Thailand...

Going from Ghandi to R. Lee Ermey?

Also notice the tone is separating GW from the Saints..

TXGSP

08-16-2012 12:28 PM

Re: Gregg Williams is on a Journey.

This is propoganda...

This looks like a contrived effort to "repair" someone's reputation, so the minions will not disapprove of a reinstatement.

I really thought the league was trying to "show their FALSE compassion" with Payton attending the HOF ceremony and not being allowed to have contact with the players.

They sure did make sure the interaction Payton and Brees had made it onto the airwaves.

SaintsBro

08-16-2012 02:02 PM

Re: Gregg Williams is on a Journey.

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Originally Posted by TXGSP
(Post 428361)

I really thought the league was trying to "show their FALSE compassion" with Payton attending the HOF ceremony and not being allowed to have contact with the players.

They sure did make sure the interaction Payton and Brees had made it onto the airwaves.

I get what you're saying -- I agree 100% that they were trying to play up the FALSE compassion. But the way it came about, was actually kinda flipped the other way around. Having both Roaf and Cortez Kennedy going into the Hall, and the Saints team actually PLAYING in the game, on national TV, it actually kinda forced the NFL's hand. The NFL sorta had to cave in and let Sean Payton go to the ceremony, because by all rights he belonged there.

Cortez Kennedy works for the Saints, as an advisor to Payton and Loomis (who knew him in Seattle); that's why Payton's son was wearing a Seahawks jersey and why Payton had the number "96" on his t-shirt at the ceremony -- that was Kennedy's number. So the two men are very close friends. SO there was all kinds of lobbying going on behind the scenes, and it basically backed the NFL into a corner. The NFL would look absurdly mean-spirited to not let Payton be there, and they'd look ludicrously bent on technicalities. In fact Goodell looks that way already.

So here's Sean Payton, with his arm around his son on TV, being a dad, showing off his serious ties to the NFL and his friendships and his clout -- he and his son show up in their Seahawks gear, like the biggest super-geek Cortez Kennedy fans in town. They're there for the ceremony! And Goodell gets a mic stuck in his face and asked a bunch of questions about the punishments and penalties. He comes off looking like a red-faced fuddy duddy. Payton ends up looking like the dream dad everybody wishes they had. It was a genius move by the Saints, to pull this all together.

And I believe it was done on purpose -- to show the world how ridiculous the Sean Payton yearlong suspension is. The fact that you and me and everyone else in the world, saw how FALSE the NFL's "compassion" was, is exactly what was needed.